Garrett High School has come under fire for its ridiculous policy of monitoring student tweets. In fact, police were even called to the school on Friday because students were threatening to protest after a student was expelled for swearing on Twitterwhen he wasn't even at school. This is absolutely ridiculous.

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Nevermind, what Carroll said, though, how the hell did tweets become the school's business anyway? According to Indiana's New Center, the school actively keeps tabs on its students on social media when they're at school.

The principal at Garrett High School claims their system tracks all the tweets on Twitter when a student logs in, meaning even if he did tweet it from home their system could have recognized it when he logged in again at school.